Ruy D’Alencar, special envoy from El Deber reports: TIPNIS protest-walk group can not get water! it is not because it is far away… water can be found in Chaparina stream, twenty meters away from where they were stopped by the police! Yes, 20 meters!! and they can’t have it! The group is on the road for its…
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TIPNIS’ stakeholders, part II
This cartoon is from El Dia (9/21/11), it reads “Oppressed Indigenous” the TIPNIS protest-walk group is surrounded by illegal loggers with chainsaw, high landers with dynamite, policemen with clubs and shields and coca growers with whips. This protests group is surrounded, deprived from water which is nearby and food supplies were not allowed to reach them. In…
About TIPNIS and coca leaf production, a theory appears…
Aside of the protest walk of the TIPNIS that is entering its second month, there is another issue that may be related to such road passing through this National Park: coca leaf production is said to exhaust the nutrients of the soil where it’s grown. An initial thought is that coca growers in the Chapare…
Bolivian police has stopped TIPNIS protest-walk group, 9/20/11
The Bolivian police force deployed in Yucumo, has stopped the TIPNIS protest march group by the bridge Chaparina, reports La Razon in its website at 18:06 hours today. Police said they took that measure as precautionary as the settlers are also there (arrived to that bridge around 11:00); police justified their action as they said they…
TIPNIS’ stakeholders of the world, UNITE!!!
Bolivian Thoughts in an Emerging World wants to thank Avaaz.org (The World in Action) for their campaign in support of the TIPNIS. Contents of their page follow: “Bolivia: Stop the Destruction of the Amazon” “Bolivia’s government is about to approve a mega-highway that could enable foreign companies to pillage the world’s most important forest. But,…
Bolivian indigenous rights were violated; CONAMAQ to the UN
A rep from CONAMAQ (Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Qullasuyu- the National Council of the highlands people, it grabs the name of one of the States in the Inca Empire, the Qullasuyu or Kollasuyo, where most of Bolivia is now), that representative went to the UN offices in Geneva, Switzerland to denounce current Bolivian government for violating indigenous rights regarding the road that intends to…
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